David Gilmour has announced he will not play 1970s Pink Floyd on his upcoming tour. Watch him perform the classic The Wall » in 2016.
David Gilmour has announced the first dates of his tour Luck and Strange last week, but he told Uncut that it would be a very different tour from previous ones due to a “ reluctance to revisit Pink Floyd from the seventies “. He went on to explain that he was willing to play Floyd songs from the Syd Barrett era of the 1960s, and from his own period as the band’s frontman in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
There ” reluctance » to playing Floyd songs from the seventies has not been explained, but it could be linked to the fact that it was a certain Roger who led the group at that time. This resulted in monumental albums like Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals And The Wall. Gilmour was the lead singer on many of the best-loved songs of this period, including “ Breathe (In the Air) “, ” Wish You Were Here “, ” Time “, ” Money “, “ Shine On You Crazy Diamond ” And “ Welcome to the Machine “. He also shares the song of “ Run Like Hell ” And ” comfortably Numb “.
Songs have been the centerpiece of Gilmour’s solo shows for decades, but the relationship between him and whoever wrote or co-wrote them isn’t in good shape right now. In fact, they have been arguing for about fifty years, and the situation escalated into a legal battle in the mid-1980s, but it never https://twitter.com/davidgilmour/status/1622735222562226176?lang=en acrimonious. This probably explains why Gilmour is preparing a show in which the name “Waters” is not to appear on a single song.
If he sticks to this commitment, it means that he will not interpret “ comfortably Numb “, even though this song has been the highlight of all the solo shows he has given over the past 40 years. The last one took place on September 30, 2016 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, during the last evening of the tour Rattle That Lock. Check out the video of this moment shot by fans.
Gilmour’s new tour will kick off again at the Royal Albert Hall on October 7, and it’s quite possible he’ll change his mind and decide to play a song or two by seventies Floyd. He left himself some leeway by saying that decades other than the seventies will be ” better represented “. If he only plays one song from the seventies, it will probably be “ comfortably Numb “. But then again, Gilmour seems determined to prove he can still headline big venues without relying on a single Waters song. We’ll see in October if that happens.
Andy Greene
Translated by the editorial staff
